Diffusion tensor imaging shows promise in evaluating spinal trauma

May 8, 2008 Diffusion tensor imaging shows promise in evaluating spinal trauma James Brice -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A University of Maryland study suggests that diffusion tensor imaging may provide emergency room physicians with valuable information to assess the extent of injuries to the cervical spine. Researchers have had reasonable success with diffusion-weighted MR imaging and DTI in spinal injury experiments in animals. Radiologists Dr. Sendhil Kumar Cheran and colleagues retrospectively evaluated changes in 50 human patients with blunt trauma neck injury using DTI to measure apparent diffusion coefficient and fractional anisotropy. Results were compared with DTI performed on 11 healthy volunteers.

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